Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (Quds Force)

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News about Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (Quds Force), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jun. 18, 2014

Tehran Journal; well-documented mass killings by Sunni militants in Iraq have caused ordinary Iranians to rethink their views of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps; group, who attacked many protesters on the streets in 2009, are now regularly lauded as reality of war is brought home. MORE

Dec. 12, 2013

Mohammad Ali Jafari, highest commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps lashes out at Foreign Min Mohammad Javad Zarif, telling him to stick to diplomacy and stay out of military business. MORE

The strikes against the Islamic State represent an unusual confluence of interests in Iraq and Syria, where Tehran and Washington find themselves fighting the same enemy in an increasingly public fashion.